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  • #52
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    10 years ago there was email.

    Okay... showing my age here... it may have been "That's Life" on BBC about 25 years ago :eek:


  • #53
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Okay... showing my age here...

    LOL You are!

    Sad part is in showing my age, I used to watch it too. Gawd bless Esther Rantzen and those teeth! :pac:


  • #54
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    The best solution would be a free phone number to call, or an Internet site to opt in for different types of flyers. When I move into a house I am, in fact, interested in deals for new occupiers - like from the local video store, butcher, taxi numbers, restaurants etc. opting in would allow local businesses to target more effectively too.


  • #55
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    The best solution would be a free phone number to call, or an Internet site to opt in for different types of flyers. When I move into a house I am, in fact, interested in deals for new occupiers - like from the local video store, butcher, taxi numbers, restaurants etc. opting in would allow local businesses to target more effectively too.

    Some form of that is called a mailing list, but I don't think that would stop them to be honest.

    If someone is on sales commission or working to targets for a head office and they can spam 5000 people every single day to get 3 additional responses they will do that instead.

    I think they should be penalised in some way - it's the only way they will pay attention, save some trees & stop pissing off lots of people to make a little more money.


  • #56
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    Not quite a mailing list as you are signing up for an area of interest, and then you get the mail.


  • #57
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Postmen push the letters through.

    Leaflet delivery people frequently don't and there is at best a heat loss issue.

    Worst thing is that it allows burgers know if a house is unoccupied.

    yeah, terrible when you hear of people getting broken into by a Big Mac


  • #58
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    Chucken wrote: »
    I love my junk mail :( ....cos no one writes me letters anymore, it gives me something to browse through at breakfast time :D

    Gives me something to wipe with at toilet time.... All it's good for really :p


  • #59
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    Few weeks back i was at work (Chinese deliveries) when my boss called me to speak on the phone to a woman who was clearly very upset. She had gotten a leaflet through the door that morning from his Chinese shop but when the leaflet went in the door of the letter box, the door stayed up and you could see clearly into her house. She was concerned that people driving/walking past could see that the house was empty through out the whole day, she worked as a nurse 14+ hrs a day, and imo shes right to think that way because there are plenty of scumbags looking out for this kind of thing. So its also a security risk.


  • #60
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    I voted no, but I would read it if it was obviously something I needed or was looking for.

    What I mean is, I throw 99% of it in the bin but if I noticed it was for a new pizza delivery place then I might read it because I like getting pizza.

    I absolutely hate those stupid catalogues though. I have asked them repeatedly not to put them in my letterbox but they insist and then they annoy me looking for them back.

    Also, one particular pain in the ass delivers at 5.30am which I think should constitute disturbing the peace.


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  • #61
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    Any junk mail that comes through the door is usually put straight into the recycling bin. If it's a supermarket flyer I will look at it though in case there's any good offers. The worst time for junk mail is always during elections - last year I remember we got about 10 of the same flyers for Sean Gallagher through the door.


  • #62
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Your Text Here wrote: »
    last year I remember we got about 10 of the same flyers for Sean Gallagher through the door.

    the same guy who wouldnt shut up about how he was saving the planet by not putting up election posters :rolleyes:


  • #63
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    JustAddWater wrote: »
    Gives me something to wipe with at toilet time.... All it's good for really :p
    nah most of it is too shiny


  • #64
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    the groutch wrote: »
    the same guy who wouldnt shut up about how he was saving the planet by not putting up election posters :rolleyes:
    Hmm, maybe it wasn't him they were for then? I have it in my head that they were, but I'm not certain now. Definitely there was loads for one particular candidate anyway.


  • #65
    Toast4532
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭Toast4532


    Junk mail does my nut in, it goes straight into the bin without so much as a second glance at it.

    It should be banned, or as another poster said, subject to littering laws.


  • #66
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    No


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  • #67
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    JustAddWater wrote: »
    Gives me something to wipe with at toilet time.... All it's good for really :p
    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    nah most of it is too shiny

    You'd only end up with a skid mark half way up your back :o


  • #68
    Mat the trasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭Mat the trasher


    Other things like those Kleeneze catalogs, it doesn't half piss them off when you tell them when they call back that it went in the bin like the rest of the the junk mail!


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